Found in Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru on steep embankments in very wet montane forests at elevations of 900 to 2500 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with a terete, erect, cane-like stem enveloped completely by adpressed, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying thin, plicate, strongly veined, distichous, linear, unequally 3 denticulate apically, mucronate dorsally, mucro not surpassing the apex of the leaf blade, acute leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter on a terminal, much longer than the terminal leaf, subsessile, sub-globose, 2.2" [6.5 cm] long, fractiflex, sparsely furfuraceous, loosely several flowered inflorescence with purple, distichous, basally non-imbricating, ovate-cymbiform, acuminate floral bracts that are longer than the flowers.